Software | Information | Community

March 2015

Update: I got distracted while titling today’s edition and mistakenly labled it as 1830 when it should have been 1831 – thanks to Paweł Niedbała for letting me know via the comments

Software

A Preview of WinJS 4.0 – The Windows Apps Team announce the preview release of WinJS 4.0 the latest version pof their JavaScript based UI library

Updated Fiddler OAuth Inspector – Kirk Evans shares an update of his Fiddler Extension which provides capabilities for inspecting JSON Web Tokens which started out as a Sharepoint specific extension but has much more general use.

Information

Entry Points for ASP.NET 5 Commands – K. Scott Allen takes a look at the Commands functionality of ASP.NET 5 which provide a useful way of running things like migrations, starting a web server and much more

ES6 generators in depth – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer continues his series looking at ECMAScript 6 Iterators with a detailed look at generators

Barbaric Basics: Web Workers – Jaime González García takes a look at Web Workers as a aprt of his Barbaric Basics series – covering the use of them to perform work in the background in the web browser.

The Rise of TypeScript? – TJ VanToll shares thoughts on the rise to prominence of TypeScript, and the Angular Team’s choice to use TypeScript for their V2.

Most Prolific Bloggers on .Net – Phillip Trelford takes a look at answering the question of the who the most prolific bloggers on the .NET platform are using data from Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew / Dew Drop.

TypeC – A Simple .NET Dependency Injection / IoC Container – ‘hanuk’ shares a simple .NET Dependency Injector / Inversion of Control Container, which allows you to register abstract types with their concrete implementation and then obtain instances of these concrete types from the container in your code.

Previewing Config Transforms – Colin Angus Mackay shares a useful tip for anyone working with a project which uses Config Transformations, allowing you to see previews of the transformed configuration files.